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Witnessing American Fascism

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Boxer from Algeria beat an Italian boxer in something like 46 seconds.

Algerian girl had been previously banned from a boxing event after some "confidential" test determined she didn't qualify. Later,the boxing group said she had XY chromosomes but no solid evidence. Olympics tested her and she passed. She was born a girl and always lived as a girl, being trans is illegal in her country.

The right is insisting she is trans because of either the XY thing or a claim that she has high T levels (I don't think this has been confirmed). Suddenly they are acting like her genitals don't matter and she is a male anyway even without any evidence (at best she would be intersex from the chromosomes but not trans).

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Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attack

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It reminds me a bit of the US intelligence saying that Russia was going to invade Ukraine and attempt to make it all the way to Kiev while Russia was adamant that it would never happen.

The other thing to note is that all countries have an "obligation to report" which requires them to report evidence of terror attacks to any county that would be the victim, even if they are a hostile nation. As much as "US bad" is true, it's frankly refreshing to see us do the right thing so publicly, even if it was only as a way to make Putin look bad.

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OneDrive deleted my files!

Was a computer repair tech until a few months ago. About 6 months ago this older guy brought in his laptop because he had been hacked and they had changed his password. Was able to change the password to something new using some fancy tools but upon getting in all his files were still missing. Turns out OneDrive was on and ALL of his important files were only on OneDrive and not the computer. Well, Microsoft had changed his password when the hackers changed his computer password so he was locked out and Microsoft didn't believe he owned the account anymore since he didn't know the password. After weeks of calls he just gave up trying to get his stuff back.

Fuck OneDrive.

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RBG Award Gala Canceled After Justice's Family, Barbra Streisand Denounce Honorees

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In 2019, Ginsburg helped establish the award with the Opperman Foundation to celebrate “women who exemplify human qualities of empathy and humility.” The organization later opened the award to men, renaming the trophy as the Leadership Award while claiming to aim for gender equality.

Ah yes, because when I think of empathy and humility I definitely think of Musk and Murdock.

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New Biden administration Title IX rule protects transgender students’ bathroom & pronoun use at school

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Biden does a bad thing: See? He's just like Trump!

Biden does a moderate thing: See? He's not as left as he should be!

Biden does a good thing early in his term: See? He's not doing enough yet!

Biden does a good thing halfway into his term: See? It's just to help the Dems in the midterm!

Biden does a good thing late in his term: See? He's just trying to appease the people who might vote for him!

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Pope Francis: ‘Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology’

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WTF are you even talking about? You keep using super vague phrases to try and argue that (and I'm just guessing here since I legitimately can't tell what you are trying to say) LGBTQ advocates are ignoring history?

What history are you pointing to? Why would that history matter in fields like medical science? Would the history of gender help us understand that some people identify as trans? Would it help us understand the best practices in helping them?

Was this all just a way to complain about "men" going into women's spaces?

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I rly hope this fighter for freedom and democracy gets his 2nd term 😍🥰

God the fucking privilege on display in these anti-Biden posts.

"I shouldn't have to vote for the lesser of two evils, I should get to vote for a candidate that 100% aligns with my desires. Who gives a shit about what will happen to the people around me and the people I'm virtue signaling about, all that matters is the feeling of clean-hands I'll have as my trans homies are marched off to the death camps or the Palestinians are eradicated. For I, the enlightened leftist, didn't vote for Biden."

For every reason you have to dislike Biden, you have an even larger reason to fear Trump. Want to support LGBTQ folks? Surely Trump will be better for them right? Want to support women's rights? Surely the guy who put three anti-abortion judges on the court will give us abortion back, right? Want to support Palestine? Surely Trump will put BB in his place and stop the genocide, right? Are you really willing to risk that for those groups just so you can feel superior? Just so you can hope to get a shit party to the 5% threshold and have them still fall on their face the next election?

If you feel comfortable enough voting third party or not voting it's because you have the privilege to be mildly inconvenienced for 4 years and be ok, unlike the groups you claim to be supporting with your protest vote.

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Free Palestine

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They could be, but we won't ever know as long as they are treated the way they are by Israel.

Terrorist groups don't tend to form in stable, prosperous, and free countries.

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Seeing this stuff makes me physically sick tbh

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Do you care to back up your claim at all or are you just going to go with "these two distinct words with distinct definitions actually mean the same thing because I said so" the same way TERFs and transphobes talk about sex and gender?

Is it possible to support the black community in America without supporting black separatism?

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due to recent events rule

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Same. I was looking for alternatives to the R word and I saw lemmy and was interested, until I saw the ".ml" and immediately heard the amungus noise.

I was very happy to see this here. While I'm still working on blocking all the ml and genzdong communities I see in all, it's already a lot better than I expected going into it.

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New Biden administration Title IX rule protects transgender students’ bathroom & pronoun use at school

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See? He's just like Trump! And he's not doing enough! And the things he has done are only to help secure votes!

Edit to add: Also, my dude, did you forget which post this is on? He's literally protecting trans people with this move but it's still not enough. Fact is you wouldn't support him even if he led the revolution himself. He's not perfect, but he's done more to clean up Trump's mess and help marginalized people than any president in history.

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Has HP printers always been this bad?

HP sucks donkey balls. Printer, computer, laptop, all-in-one, doesn't matter. Friends don't let friends by an HP.

That said, ET-2800 is an Epson brand printer, specifically the base-model "Eco-Tank" printer that uses bottles of ink instead of cartridges. HP makes a few under the "Super Tank" line. If that's the right model number, that might help explain driver issues if you have an Epson printer being controlled by HP drivers.

If you plan on keeping it, make sure to set a calendar reminder or set up a task to print at least one color page every month to keep the ink from drying out in the print head. If you decide to replace it, consider a brother laser, especially the black-and-white only models. They are tanks

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HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly

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I am obligated by my work to offer this to customers when they buy an HP printer and I make it really clear that it's a bad deal for most customers. There are some edge case examples, like a lady with a small business who always prints exactly like 3 pages a day. The other customers who agree to buy it are almost always the super old people who don't want to have to come to the store to get more ink. I think it's a shit program that should be scrapped entirely, but some people really don't care if it's a bad deal as long as they get the convenience. No different than 7-11 up charging shit because it's easier to buy it at the market down the street than the Walmart a few miles down the road.

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Columbia University, home to one of the nation's most respected journalism schools, blocks reporters from campus as dozens of students are arrested

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Protect them from what? The president was asked in Congress specifically if there were any threats made against Jewish students or even a protest specifically against Jews or Jewish students and she said no.

No one has a right to not see things they don't like or hear things they don't like. Some students may have been uncomfortable, but that's good, that's literally the point of protesting.

What actually happened here is the president got shit from Republicans about "not supporting the Jewish students" by making the pro-palestine protests go away, was scared by the resignation of other presidents who have gotten flack from Republicans, and gave into the pressure. If there was real evidence of harm to students, and not just making them uncomfortable, she would have said it in her email or letter to the NYPD.